No post for so long

I have been posting on facebook and on my other blog but somehow I just havent been sketching. Too tired, at the moment cant see due to a cataract op and one eye not talking to the other. I do get new glasses next Friday and I hope they do the trick. Very hard at the moment to see the computer screen. Any way this was last nights doodle with a wash of colour over it. I hope I manage to get things on this blog a bit more often.

From my sketchbook.

'Waiting'

I havent painted for ages but the other day I started this one, a sort of companion to 'The watchers', I am finding that my sight is getting worse, a cataract op is, I hope, in the near future. Any way it was something to keep this blog alive.

Last pages of my weekly journal Colour me positive

All on their side I am afraid, I cant seem to turn them, or they go back when I do. I wasnt sure I would finish this weekly journalling idea and I very nearly didnt but in the last few days i hastily did something, cant say I am terribly pleased with them and I really dont thing that journaling is my forte. I have done very little sketching and painting lately and perhaps I will do better this new year.

A sketch from Kangaroo Island

I have been very naughty, so little painting and sketching but while we were on the Island for a week over Christmas I did do this one at the Chapman River where John was fishing, and catching bream that were too small. I love the grasses and fallen trees and stuff there. I am wondering if age is catching up, but I hope to do more sketching in 2017. See you then.

Haven't sketched for ages

This hasn't Come out terribly well. We are up on the Gold Coast, in Queensland. It is a lot warmer at home but pleasant, came up for a funeral, a celebration of a 103 year old life lived well. But at the end a merciful release. Now we are staying with friend J and relaxing and catching up with friends. I sketched these flowers when we had a morning to our selves, we have packed in quite a bit and once more, with J working this morning are doing very little

2 weeks of colour me positive

I have been a bit slow posting these, but here are 2 weeks efforts. I am still enjoying doing them. This last week we could do what we liked, so I chose to do leaves. I love painting leaves and I rather liked the quote I found to go with it.

Colour me positive week 38

I rather liked doing this one, the last few I have done have been awful. Serene and peaceful. Not a lot of sketching has been going on here, I have been knitting. and ching so not much to put up.

Playing with tea bags

I usually use gesso under these but didnt this time. because I am placing them on black pages in my book I think the gesso makes them stand out better and if I dont use too much you can still see the lovely colours left in the tea bag.

Week 34 colour me positive

Trouble is this one doesnt look very positive. Whatever I did it didnt photograph well and yet in real life it is quite good. I used a spray as a background, then I rubbed over a rubbing tile with crayon and then drew the leaf in pencil. I think I shlould have gone over it again with a pen. Oh well. I will brighten things up next week.

Week 33 colour me positive

I think my caption for this was something along the lines that would it be possible to pick up a feather and fly. Having fun. It is on my face book page.

Colour me positive

I absolutely loved doing this, Ro Bruhn was our inspiration this week with Alive being the prompt. I love Ro's work and this is my tribute to her. Not nearly as polished, much more primitive but the best my rather shaky arthritic fingers could do. I have always loved doing houses and rolling hills and pastures but this one just seemed to jump off the paint brush at me. I hope she doesnt mind.

Colour me Positive week 30

I find it incredible that I am still managing to keep doing these. This week the prompt was creative and I think I am finding myself being a little more loose and creative, not all the time but I loved doing this weeks page.

From my sketchbook

Playing in my sketchbook, first one a bit of this and that, the second one was done when I got home after seeing this as I drove in fog yesterday,

This weeks colour me positive challenge

Food for thought, this weeks was about Journeys. I have made many journeys in my time and loved them, would love to go back to Paris, even with all the trouble that is going on there, Japan as well, skiing in Austria was fun and we really only passed through Malaya a couple of times. Our sea link ferry to Kangaroo Island is now the most possible journey I think. We were lucky in the places we have managed to get to and the things we have seen.

Listening

Another of my odd people paintings. I think this one grows on you. Any way they are fun to do. The weather here is awful, gale force winds, trees down, cold and the odd squally shower.

Waiting

I am not sure where I am going with these, this is the first of a possible series. Playing around with simple figures and paint using gesso as well. I think probably I am just having fun.

Draw an eye.

A little bit of fun using prompts from Carla Sonheims book, drawing imaginary animals. Love that book, when I need a bit of a prompt for a fun sketch.

Not a lot going on

This is on its side, I am sorry, not sure what is going on as I have it right side up and then it flips again. Any way this is a page I did for my colour me positive challenge and the prompt was enough. I had the shell I had picked up off the beach a few days ago so sketched it. I think what I said was that being alive was enough. That is the way I feel at the moment. Freezing cold, wet and windy today and no walk. Ah well there is always tomorrow.

Not really a sketch or painting

I suppose it is a sort of collage. Week 24 of Colour me positive, It was courage and we had to put the quote and a boat some where in it. I found an old National Geographic map of the ocean floor and used that as my base with a ship cut out of newspaper with the feeling that it needed courage to sail in a sea when you didnt know what was beneath you. I have been terribly tired lately and am struggling to get things done. Cold and damp and dull is probably the problem.